From b0c504f154718904ae49349147e3b7e6ae91ffdc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexander Duyck Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2020 20:05:05 -0700 Subject: virtio-balloon: add support for providing free page reports to host Add support for the page reporting feature provided by virtio-balloon. Reporting differs from the regular balloon functionality in that is is much less durable than a standard memory balloon. Instead of creating a list of pages that cannot be accessed the pages are only inaccessible while they are being indicated to the virtio interface. Once the interface has acknowledged them they are placed back into their respective free lists and are once again accessible by the guest system. Unlike a standard balloon we don't inflate and deflate the pages. Instead we perform the reporting, and once the reporting is completed it is assumed that the page has been dropped from the guest and will be faulted back in the next time the page is accessed. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Dan Williams Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Cc: Luiz Capitulino Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Nitesh Narayan Lal Cc: Oscar Salvador Cc: Pankaj Gupta Cc: Paolo Bonzini Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Wei Wang Cc: Yang Zhang Cc: wei qi Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200211224657.29318.68624.stgit@localhost.localdomain Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- drivers/virtio/Kconfig | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'drivers/virtio/Kconfig') diff --git a/drivers/virtio/Kconfig b/drivers/virtio/Kconfig index 078615cf2afc..4b2dd8259ff5 100644 --- a/drivers/virtio/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/virtio/Kconfig @@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ config VIRTIO_BALLOON tristate "Virtio balloon driver" depends on VIRTIO select MEMORY_BALLOON + select PAGE_REPORTING ---help--- This driver supports increasing and decreasing the amount of memory within a KVM guest. -- cgit 1.4.1